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Angelo Bruno
Angelo Bruno (Angelo Annaloro), "The Docile Don" or "Gentle Don," Sicilian-born boss of the Philadelphia Mafia from 1959 until his March 21, 1980 shotgun assassination, which triggered decades of family warfare.
Angelo Buono Jr.
Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (1934-2002), with cousin Kenneth Bianchi one of the Hillside Stranglers, murdered young women in Los Angeles in 1977-78; convicted 1983 of nine murders after the longest U.S. criminal trial, died in prison.
Angelo Epaminonda
Angelo Epaminonda, "il Tebano" (1945-2016), Catania-born boss of Milan's clan dei catanesi; controlled gambling, prostitution and drugs in the 1980s, became northern Italy's first mafia pentito in 1985, revealing 44 murders.
Angelo Ruggiero
Angelo "Quack Quack" Ruggiero, Gambino crime family caporegime, nephew of Aniello Dellacroce and friend of John Gotti; his bugged heroin-trafficking conversations, 1983 indictment with Gene Gotti and Carneglia, refusal to give Paul Castellano his tapes, and death of cancer December 4, 1989.
Angola Three
The Angola Three were Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, who spent decades in solitary confinement at Louisiana's Angola prison, becoming a landmark case against prolonged isolation.
Aniello Dellacroce
Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce (1914–1985), underboss of New York's Gambino crime family under Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, mentor of John Gotti, operator of the Ravenite Social Club, Time-reported FBI informant, died of cancer before his 1985 racketeering trial.
Ankit Fadia
Ankit Fadia (born 1985, Ahmedabad) is an Indian author and self-proclaimed ethical hacker famous from his 2001 book An Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking; his hacking claims are widely disputed and his books documented as heavily plagiarized.
Anna Sorokin (Анна Сорокина)
Anna Sorokin (Анна Сорокина), alias Anna Delvey, Russian-born German con artist who posed as a wealthy heiress in New York 2013–2017, defrauding banks and hotels of over $275,000; convicted 2019, sentenced 4–12 years, subject of Netflix's Inventing Anna.
Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman (Eliza Ann Smith, c. 1840/1841-1888), second canonical Jack the Ripper victim, killed 8 September 1888 at 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields; uterus removed; Wynne Baxter inquest ended inconclusively; not a documented sex worker.
Annie Dookhan
Annie Dookhan, former Hinton State Laboratory Institute chemist in Boston (2003–2012), fabricated drug test results, jeopardizing over 20,000 cases; her 2013 guilty plea led to the largest mass dismissal of wrongful convictions in U.S. history.
Anonymous (hacker group)
Anonymous is a decentralized hacktivist collective originating on 4chan in 2003, known for Project Chanology, Operation Payback, Arab Spring operations, the Guy Fawkes mask, and its legacy in later hacktivist groups.
Anthony Allen Shore
Anthony Allen Shore, Houston's "Tourniquet Killer," was an American serial killer who strangled four females aged 9 to 21 between 1986 and 1995, was caught by a 2003 DNA match, and was executed in Texas on January 18, 2018.
Anthony Broadwater
Anthony Broadwater, a Syracuse Black man wrongfully convicted in 1982 of raping author Alice Sebold, served 16 years, was exonerated in November 2021, and settled with New York State for $5.5 million.
Anthony Casso
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (1942–2020), Lucchese crime family underboss in New York, corrupt-NYPD-payroll operator, 1994 Mafia informant whose cooperation deal was denied in 1998; died of COVID-19 in prison.
Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), Connecticut-born anti-vice crusader, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and Postal Service special agent, drafted and lobbied the 1873 Comstock Act banning mailing obscene material, contraceptives, and abortifacients.
Anthony Corallo
Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo (1913–2000) was an American mobster, boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, nicknamed for dodging subpoenas and convicted in the 1980s Mafia Commission case.
Anthony Curcio
Anthony Jay Curcio (born 1980), American armored car robber of Monroe, Washington, the 'D.B. Tuber' of the 2008 Brink's heist, later a motivational speaker convicted in 2026 of forging PSA trading card grades as 'Brendan Wooley'.
Anthony Gaggi
Anthony Frank "Nino" Gaggi was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, indicted with Paul Castellano in 1984 on racketeering charges involving 25 murders, convicted in a 1986 federal stolen-car trial, and the subject of a released FBI file.
Anthony Giacalone
Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone (died February 23, 2001) was a reputed Detroit Mafia capo and longtime street boss, brother of Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone, and the man Jimmy Hoffa was due to meet at the Machus Red Fox on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; convicted of bribery and tax evasion.
Anthony Graziano
Anthony Graziano: name shared by a Bonanno crime family consigliere who led its New Jersey operations, a New Jersey man sentenced to 35 years for 2011-2012 synagogue arsons, and a California man killed by deputies in 2022 after abducting his daughter.
Anthony Indelicato
Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, Bonanno crime family mobster, son of murdered capo Sonny Red; gunman in Carmine Galante's 1979 murder, convicted in the 1986 Mafia Commission trial, pleaded guilty in 2008 to a 2001 murder.
Anthony Mirra
Anthony "Tony" Mirra was an American mobster in the Bonanno crime family who introduced undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, "Donnie Brasco," and was murdered in 1982.
Anthony Pellicano
Anthony Pellicano (born 1944), Hollywood private investigator and audio-forensics expert, ran the Pellicano Investigative Agency; convicted in 2008 of racketeering and wiretapping, sentenced to 15 years, released in 2019.
Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal
The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal was a federal investigation of Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who wiretapped celebrities' opponents for clients and was convicted in 2008.
Anthony Provenzano
Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, Genovese family member and Teamsters Local 560 (Union City, NJ) boss from the 1950s, convicted labor racketeer, prime suspect in Jimmy Hoffa's 1975 disappearance, died in prison December 12, 1988.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Anthony Ray Hinton is an American man who spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for two 1985 murders he did not commit and was exonerated in 2015.
Anthony Robinson (serial killer)
Anthony Eugene Robinson (born 1986), the "Shopping Cart Killer", is a Washington, D.C. man convicted in 2025 of murdering Beth Redmon and Tonita Smith in Harrisonburg, Virginia, sentenced in 2026 to two life terms; suspected but uncharged in Fairfax County and D.C. deaths.
Anthony Russell (murderer)
Anthony Russell (born 1982) is a Coventry triple murderer who killed Julie Williams, David Williams, and Nicole McGregor in October 2020, received a whole-life order in 2022, and was charged in 2026 with murdering Ian Huntley at HMP Frankland.
Anthony Salerno
Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, Genovese crime family boss in New York, convicted in the 1986 Mafia Commission case; central figure in concrete bid-rigging and Teamsters racketeering, and namesake of the Salerno bail-detention rulings.
Anthony Sowell
Anthony Edward Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler, was an American serial killer who murdered 11 Black women in Cleveland, Ohio, hiding their remains at his Imperial Avenue house.